David - weekly no. 6

Fluks, H.W. H.W.Fluks at research.kpn.com
Thu Feb 10 13:08:02 CET 2000


David:

> > There's Little Wolf story. And
> >the title says that... in the 80'es it was always BB wolf
> 	Big Bad may still be the hero- uh, "title character" 
> now and then.
> 	But you know, in fact the long-standing tradition here 
> at Egmont has
> always been to call the stories "Li'l Bad Wolf," and it's the 
> *publishers*
> who sometimes retitle a certain story BBW instead.

In Holland, they changed from LBW stories to BBW somewhere in the mid-80s.
They now consistently use BBW as title character only. My guess is that they
don't want to keep explaining why LBW is called a BAD wolf, when he isn't.

--Harry.




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